More words related to saunterer

Word Origin & History

saunter late 15c., santren "to muse, be in reverie," of uncertain origin. Meaning "walk with a leisurely gait" is from 1660s, and may be a different word entirely. Some suggest this word derives via Anglo-Fr. sauntrer (mid-14c.) from Fr. s'aventurer "to take risks," but OED finds this "unlikely." The noun meaning "a leisurely stroll" is recorded from 1828. Related: Sauntered.

Example Sentences for saunterer

Evidently that shot created something like a little panic aboard the Saunterer.

It holds the eye and stays the foot of every saunterer in the woods.

I will confess that there was a time when I could have loved that career as a saunterer in West End streets.

The Saunterer's Apple not even the saunterer can eat in the house.

The bailiff must not be a saunterer; he must always be sober; he mustn't go out to dinner.

The detective, who seemed to have been just a saunterer, had accommodated himself to Francis' destination.

My concern, as a saunterer's ought always to be, was with the road itself, not with what might lie at the end of it.

And now he is even as one of the crowd that he had ruled, a saunterer on the side-walk, an unknown, a negligible wayfarer.